How to Convert MKV to iPhone 5S/5/4S and All Models (Windows 8 included)

What is MKV?

MKV, short for Matroska Video, unlike MP3, MP4 and things like those, is not a media format but an extensible open standard Audio/Video container. We can definite it as a multimedia container. MKV can't be played in Mac by default. However, by converting to iPhone compatible formats, you can enjoy MKV on iPhone 4s/5/5s, iPhone 4, and other models of iPhone.

How to Watch MKV videos on iPhone (iPhone 4s/5/5s)?

iPhone doesn't support the MKV formatted videos but only MOV, MP4 or M4V, some particular AVI files are permitted. As the development of MKV, more and more videos are saved as MKV files, which then requires you to convert MKV video to iPhone compatible format if you wanna play MKV on iPhone for entertainment on the go. To do so, a professional MKV to iPhone converter is a great helper.

Although there are hundreds of video converters in the market which are introduced with the function of converting video among all file format, there are kinds of situations letting us down: crash of programs, loss of video quality, limited format supported etc. In order to save you time, we here directly shows you Video Converter for Windows (Windows 8 supported) and Video Converter for Mac to solve your problem as quickly and easily as possible. With perfect performance during the conversion, the two additionally supplies an optimized preset for iPhone for you to make the MKV to iPhone task easier:

Step 1. Add MKV video to the MKV to iPhone converter

Click "Add Files" button to load MKV files (if you change your idea and want to delete this file, just click delete). You can also rearrange the files by dragging them.

Step 2. Select the output format

Select iPhone as output format by clicking "Output Format" image on the right side and then going to "Device">"Apple" > "iPhone". Before MKV video to iPhone conversion starting, it is optional to customize your videos by trimming unwanted parts, cropping disgusting commercial mark, merging video clips into one, etc. You can make your video perfect by clicking the "Edit" button.

Step 3. Start to convert MKV to iPhone

Once you confirm everything goes as you plan, just click "Convert". The progress bar will show you the conversion processing. Then congratulations! You can enjoy your videos on iOS 4 within several seconds.